[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #10041: [PM] system unbootable after driver tweak (and /still/ unbootable after removing the offending driver ?!)

  • From: "ttcoder" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:38:49 -0000

#10041: [PM] system unbootable after driver tweak (and /still/ unbootable after
removing the offending driver ?!)
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 Reporter:  ttcoder    |        Owner:  nobody
     Type:  bug        |       Status:  new
 Priority:  normal     |    Milestone:  R1
Component:  - General  |      Version:  R1/Package Management
 Keywords:             |   Blocked By:
 Blocking:             |  Has a Patch:  0
 Platform:  All        |
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 This is with the 21st of Sep. PM-branch build (a few days before the
 merge). Can try with a more recent nightly if necessary.

 I have a (pre-built) version of the hda driver that I copy to new installs
 of Haiku to make them "multi-out-jacks" aware (pending integration of my
 changes some day). I have a 3 line script that shuts down media_server,
 unzips the driver, relaunches media_server ..etc.

 I tried to do the same thing as usual in a PM nightly, just adding {{{non-
 packaged}}} to the {{{config/non-packaged/add-ons ..etc}}} filepath to
 unzip the driver to, and... it made the system unbootable, block on the
 third icon at boot, consistently (found out that if I enable "on screen
 debug output" it allows to boot to the desktop, so maybe the problem is
 tied to the weird timing problems I've had on this Asus F2A55M mobo
 earlier).

 There are separate issues I should file about this maybe (should the
 Migration wiki document explain how to do this correctly, maybe non-
 packaged is not the right place to put it? or did I do it correctly but
 there's an issue with the hda driver ?), but in this ticket I'll focus on
 something that seems worrying at first, in italics for emphasis :-).. :

 ''Booting from another partition, I have removed the hda driver and its
 audio/hmulti/hda symlink and Haiku is _still_ unbootable''

 Ok so the package code is not state-less, no problem, find the "state",
 right ?. So I Iooked into "administrative" directories ..etc and did not
 see anything that could explain it.. So the system is back to what it was
 (in appearance at least) before I changed the driver, and yet it still
 refuses to boot up. What am I missing ? Something's damaged or corrupted
 by my driver "upgrade", in the packagefs maybe ?

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